News
Te Papa & NZ National Repatriation Project
& Repatriation Research Network
AM Project Discover: A singular civic space
– highest honour at AIA NSW Awards 2021
WAM’s awards avalanche (incl Alec Coles
Arts & Culture West Australian of 2021)
SAM seeks to return Benin bronzes
– difficult history, openness & transparency
Yidaki: Didjeridu & the Sound of Australia
– NMA exhibition open in NAIDOC week
Vale Edward de Bono
– ‘lateral thinking’ & 6 thinking hats
French Science on the High Seas:
Voyages of discovery shows on SBS 14 July
Janet Carding leaves TMAG for Sydney Harbor
Trust bringing experience in connecting
MV presents Treasures of the Natural World
200 important objects from NHM collection
Small piece of timber from Cook’s Endeavour
– up for $400,000 auction
Indigenous Voice co-design process:
ILA analysis of NIAA public consultations
Prehistoric sea monsters resurface at AWMM
– collaboration with ANMM & QM
OM’s dawn ceremony celebrating Matariki
– event to grow with 2022 public holiday,
Te Papa, NZ’s PM & Shackleton’s sled
– view from Co. Kildare & S. Museum, Athy
Brian Oldman on SAM’s 165th – Wonders,
research, repatriation & retelling truths
New BM Chair former British Chancellor
Hartwig Fischer welcomes George Osborne
Patrick McIntyre announced as NFSA CEO
by Chair Gabrielle Trainor AO
Seven sites, incl Venice & GBR at risk
– potential additions to Unesco in Danger list
QM explores Island Futures for Zenadth Kes
Torres Strait Islanders & climate change
The political platypus & colonial koala:
how to decolonise language for Aus fauna
Gululu dhuwala djalkiri at Chau Chak Wing
wins MAGNA Best Indigenous Project
Museum DNA ‘resurrects’ extinct Gould’s mouse
AMRI welcomes ‘second chance’ to conserve
Eucalyptusdom exhibition at MAAS
“especial heritage of this stranger land”
Te Papa deep clean following Sydney’s visit
– reopens with conditions
AWMM’s Te Ao Marama South Atrium wins
NZ Interiors Civic & Supreme Awards
Museums Aotearoa adopts National Repatriation
Policy & elects new Council & farewells ED
UN views culture as “a common good” &
central in COVID recovery
MV’s Tim O’Hara describes new family
of brittle stars from New Caledonia
Kerry Stokes reappointed as AWM chair
during AWM redevelopment
CSIRO proposes $70M National Collections
building at Black Mountain